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Ancient light

Banville, John. (Author).

Summary: An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.

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  • ISBN: 9780307960832 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307960838 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (287 p.)
  • Edition: 1st American ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
"Originally published in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd., London, in 2012"--T.p. verso.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Older men -- Fiction
Actors -- Fiction
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Electronic books.

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John Banville, the author of fifteen previous novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. He lives in Dublin.

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